Rangefinders

[RyanR]

My course has quite a few yardage markers on the sprinklers, but I have one for 3D archery and bowhunting so I just put it in my golf bag and it comes in handy! If you can find one used or something for not that much, they're a hoot to play with!

Good luck,
Ryan

[Billy_Baroo]

My courses don't have GPS but I carry a GolfLogix GPS unit from Garmin. I play a handful of courses regularly so I am not as familiar with any specific course as someone who plays the same course over 90% of the time. Yardage to the doglegs, front and clear of water hazards and bunkers, front, middle and back of greens. If you find yourself in the wrong fairway with trees blocking your view of the green, no problem.

[Kellfire]

Does anyone have any experience with the Bushnell X-500?

[flash]

  Kellfire said:

Does anyone have any experience with the Bushnell X-500?

does anyone remember how to count their steps from any 100-150-200yd.marker.can't believe the amount of fools who think EXACT yardage makes them a player. guess I'm old school .If Jack.N. had one would he have won 43 majors. never know.christ I don't know why I keep posting to these hack sites

[iacas]

  flash said:

does anyone remember how to count their steps from any 100-150-200yd.marker.can't believe the amount of fools who think EXACT yardage makes them a player. guess I'm old school .If Jack.N. had one would he have won 43 majors. never know.christ I don't know why I keep posting to these hack sites

One of the pioneering things Jack did was to be one of the first to use yardage books, and incredibly accurate ones at that. So... if Jack had the exact yardages, I think he'd have won about 18 majors.

[golfchief]

  flash said:

does anyone remember how to count their steps from any 100-150-200yd.marker.can't believe the amount of fools who think EXACT yardage makes them a player. guess I'm old school .If Jack.N. had one would he have won 43 majors. never know.christ I don't know why I keep posting to these hack sites

You must be the fool, If Jack would have had the Technology He would have used it. If you think the yardage markers on all courses or correct than your a fool. May every golfer in front of you be eighty years old and feel they need to walk sixty five yards to the green from the rough and back on every shot to the green so they can shoot their 120 score.

If you feel this is a hack site just move on and have a good day.

[mtrevors]

I have a SkyCaddie SG-2 and I love it. Lots of sprinkler heads and markers in my area are off by 10+ yards which is an entire club to me. I'm thinking about picking up a Bushnell Pinseeker Slope Edition in the sprint because I believe it's the first range finder to take into account elevation changes. Not cheap either, $450... ouch... The things I do for my golf game

[Beach Golfer]

I don't use one for a variety of reasons:

1. They are too expensive.

2. I wouldn't trust them to be accurate.

3. Part of the skill of golf is to be able to figure out how far it is to the pin.

[golfchief]

  Beach Golfer said:

I don't use one for a variety of reasons:

they use pinseakers and skycaddies on practice days to get yardages.

[Gapwedge]

I have had the Bushnell Pinseeker since the spring of this year and I can honestly say it has saved me a couple of strokes per round. Since it does not have the slope it is legal for USGA play. Saves time and give accurate info for distances to sandtraps, water hazards, and best of all the pin. You still have to adjust for wind, slope, etc.

[shake99]

Have a Bushnell and also a Sky Caddy love both

[rstyle]

For ll the perfectionists and that think yardage to the pin should be one of the unknowns and true experience of golf........................

I played round in Panther's Lake (Orange County National) in Orlando a few days before the Q school tournaments.
Ran into two caddies that were mapping the course for their players for the upcoming tournament. Guess what they were using! Range finders and a little gadget that they put on the green and gives them the slope. One of the guys would wait for players to finish a hole and while waiting for the next group to shoot at the green would crawl all over the green taking notes while placing this little round gadget that gave him direction and degree of slope. At the TEE they would write down dist to first tree, last tree, to the trap, to the mound etc. It was actually interesting talking to them

So..........when you see the player or the caddy take out that little notebook during the tournament................guess how all those distances ere obtained!

Jack N may have won more tournaments but they did not have rangefinders then

[907golfer12]

I got a LR800 for my birthday (yesterday, turned 15) and so far it is great

[rstyle]

Happy Birthday,
great present!!!
Give me an update after you use it a few times since I am leaning towards that one because of size. price etc.

[907golfer12]

  rstyle said:

Happy Birthday,

Well I have now used it in 6 rounds, and can safely say that it has helped shave some strokes off my handicap. at the end of august I was an 18 and now I'm a 13.4. Living in Alaska I can't practice on grass, so I know that practice hasn't shaved it. Just yesterday I shot a +4 (76) and that was because I had the exact yardage and hit a lot of shots nice and tight and 1 putted for a

lot of pars!

[Linkster]

rangefinders are great! but you still have to hit the ball.

[jonjones]

  Linkster said:

rangefinders are great! but you still have to hit the ball.

VERY true. That being said, I carry a Pinseeker 1500 TE AND a GolfLogix8 GPS.

[Smallville]

I have used a Bushnell for years and recently got the GolfLogix GPS. Used both in my first round with the GPS but as soon as I am comfortable knowing where the GPS is measuring (when it says 153 to the dogleg, is it in the middle of the fairway or on the closest part of the dogleg?), I'll probably replace the Bushnell with a small pair of binoculars just to get the pin positions.